Kay Ulanday Barrett

A Campus Pride 2009 Hot List artist, Kay Ulanday Barrett is a poet, performer, and educator, navigating life as a disabled pin@y-amerikan transgender queer in the U.S. with struggle, resistance, and laughter. K. has featured in colleges and stages globally; Musee Pour Rire in Montreal, The Brooklyn Museum. K’s bold work continues to excite and challenge audiences. K. has facilitated workshops, presented keynotes, and contributed to panels for The Audre Lorde Project, FIERCE, Res Artis. Honors include: Finalist for The Gwendolyn Brooks Open-Mic Award and contributions in Kicked Out Anthology, Make/Shift, Filipino American Psychology. K. turns art into action, dedicated to remixing recipes. See K. online on twitter @kulandaybarrett.

Emi Koyama

Emi Koyama is a multi-issue social justice activist and writer synthesizing feminist, Asian, survivor, dyke, queer, sex worker, intersex, genderqueer, and crip politics, as these factors, while not a complete descriptor of who she is, all impacted her life. Emi is currently the director of Intersex Initiative. Emi lives in Portland, Oregon and is putting the emi back in feminism since 1975.

Sabelo Narasimhan

Sabelo Narasimhan is a trans/queer, South Asian immigrant photographer and community organizer. With a Masters in Public Administration, specializing in International Policy at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Sabelo’s research areas included migration, social policy, and LGBT policy. Prior to NYU, Sabelo worked with youth leadership development, arts & media activism projects, and freelanced as an urban documentary photographer and filmmaker. Sabelo has also worked as a community organizer with many local organizations on various campaigns around immigration, youth political education, state and police violence and community safety alternatives.

Van Nguyen

Raised and rooted in Philadelphia, Van is a genderqueer Vietnamese-American teacher, activist, performer, and outspoken community member. She is an active member of hotpot!, and the Philadelphia Trans Health Conference Kids Camp program with experience in facilitation and community organizing. hotpot! has been her home for the past few years and the organization is instrumental in shaping her continuing work with improving the world with each step.

Elakshi Kumar

Elakshi Kumar is a PhD Candidate at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Transplanted from New Delhi, India, he’s been unsettled in Minneapolis for the last few years, working on his dissertation, titled “Apprehending Female Masculinity: Globalization and Gender Non-conformity in India”. His research critically examines the queer social movement in India through the lens of the in/visibility of female masculinity. He is passionate about studying and creating space for gender-nonconforming people, while being mindful of “at what or whose cost?” Elakshi is also an undergraduate instructor, organizer, an alumnus of the Brown Boi Project leadership retreat, and a compulsive lover of love.